3 years is only 4 the 3 red lights.

I thought the Elite version was suppossedly to be working just fine without any problems?? Is it "so" difficult to create a good reliable piece of hardware?

the first batches of the elite were no different to normal ones other than their black casing, so theres no reason for them to be any more reliable, more recent versions of all 360s are shipping with an additional heatsink on the GPU, which should help reduce the problems. I believe the smaller die cpu machines are in production now and will be in the stores once the current stocks are sold.

If you were to return your faulty elite to MS, im pretty sure they will return one with the additional heatsink.

Terrible news - I hope this is an isolated incident. I can't believe that the 360 is about to hit its THIRD Xmas and is still having stability issues on new units.

I really hope to pick up a 360 next year, and this probably the only thing that would stop me.

Uh....Just call MS and ask.

I've never heard of that issue. Your cache could just be bloated.

As far as I've seen, that was just wishful thinking from some people. I never saw any conclusive evidence to prove that... I think some people just assumed it, even though no one proved that there was any difference in the hardware.

But allegedly, some of the newest Halo consoles already have the 65nm CPU in. Given the time they had to fix this, and given that the new units clearly have new components, they also had the opportunity to fix the heating problems, so any further equal problems are inexcusable!

 No, I doubt the 360 will be even close to 120+ million, but the 360 has an incredible game library which won't be equaled by the ps3 for at least another year. If a gamer wants to play any of the games they already own for the 360 they either need a new 360 ($350 premium) or a new ps3 ($499, or $599 if the 60gb is sold out by now)  plus $60 for each game to buy a ps3 copy.